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Levy, Paul; McGrath, Dennis – Social Policy, 1979
Advocates of the "new realism" in urban revitalization argue that effective urban policy involves attracting industries and white-collar taxpayers while improving public management and reducing public services. If this approach is not counterbalanced by socially conscious interests, cities may soon have little room for many of their present…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Economic Change, Economically Disadvantaged, Investment
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Ambler, Marjane – Tribal College, 1996
Discusses tribal colleges' struggles with lower-than-promised federal appropriations, including difficulties related to governance and planning and the threat of closure. Describes possible alternate means of funding, such as forward funding one year in advance, funding from state governments, and private funding from tribal governments or private…
Descriptors: American Indians, Change Strategies, Educational Finance, Finance Reform
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Lief, Beth – Teachers College Record, 1992
Describes the Fund for New York City Public Education, established by foundation and business leaders, which increases and channels community concern about education toward lasting improvements in the New York City school system. Its priorities include comprehensive school restructuring, professional development and incentives, school community…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Nelson, Jane – Grassroots Development, 1998
Outlines ways in which businesses can contribute to sustainable development through core business activities, social investment, and participation in public policy debates. Describes corporate efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean to promote child-friendly companies, provide community access to technology, improve educational quality and…
Descriptors: Community Education, Corporate Education, Corporate Support, Educational Development
Evelyn, Jamilah – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1999
The search for college faculty members of color has led one organization to recruit doctoral candidates from the business world. Funded with $6 million in corporate sponsorship, the project subsidizes business professionals' doctoral study, helps run doctoral student associations, and brings students and business school officials to annual…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty)
Ingram, Richard T. – Trusteeship, 1998
The author of recommended reforms for public college and university governing boards that had been outlined in an Association of Governing Boards policy paper, responds to criticism of the reform strategies and expands on his suggestions in four areas: the call for larger boards; merit selection of trustees; greater trustee philanthropy; and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Governance
Bolinger, Rex – High School Magazine, 1999
Ensuring hardware access and providing high-quality content and teaching resources are main goals at a small rural high school in Indiana. Extensively integrated technology has been funded by a series of private grants, local fund raising, and a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant through the state department of education. (MLH)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Technology, Financial Support, Grants
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Hill, Paul T. – Journal of Education, 2005
New school creation is key to success of choice. For the last two decades, the struggle over school choice has focused on freeing up parents to choose. It continues to this day, with growing success in the forms of public and private voucher programs, charter school laws in 40 states and the District of Columbia, and state and federal laws that…
Descriptors: School Choice, Supply and Demand, Educational Demand, Public Schools
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Richardson, Theresa – American Educational History Journal, 2005
By the beginning of World War I most U.S. American children attended elementary school. However, up to 65% of school age children left their studies to find work after the fifth or sixth grade when they were ten or eleven years old. Four years after the stock market crash of 1929 one quarter of the labor force, or thirteen million workers of all…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Social Organizations, Child Development, Educational Development
Agard, Kathryn A. – Principal Leadership, 2004
Students must understand the "head" as well as the "heart" part of volunteering and service portion of their civic education--why they should be a part of their community, why they should act for the common good, and how participating in their community dovetails with participation in the democratic process. There are many…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Private Financial Support, Role of Education
Online Submission, 2007
Parent involvement in literacy instruction has a significant, positive impact on children's reading acquisition and family economic success. Much like other place-based family strengthening approaches, family literacy programs are inherently family-focused, designed to address the learning needs of an entire family rather than each separate…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Caregivers, Parent School Relationship
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Wernstedt, Kris; Meyer, Peter B.; Alberini, Anna – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
We employ a mail survey of private developers that uses conjoint choice experiments and Likert-scaled attitudinal questions to examine preferences for policy instruments and incentives intended to encourage brownfield cleanup and redevelopment. Our analysis suggests that developers judge public hearing requirements at brownfield redevelopments…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Land Use, Development, Industrialization
House-Deere, Deb, Comp. – 1994
Designed for use by parents and professionals, this guide provides assistance in finding appropriate financial resources and services for children with special needs in Iowa. Divided into six chapters, the guide presents programs related to education, health, human services, insurance, social security, and other support services. After a brief…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Community Programs, Early Childhood Education, Eligibility
Hale, Phale D., Jr. – 1992
This guidebook offers lessons in the fundamentals of grant-writing, with a focus on showing the proposal writer how to shape the basic form into a clear, well-organized document that is unique as well as appealing to the reader. Chapter 1 examines the general structure of a grant proposal and shows how to build a conceptual framework that makes a…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Ratteray, Joan Davis – 1997
In recent years the Institute for Independent Education has begun to study a significant parental response to the lack of options in education. Parents of color and those with low to moderate incomes are creating and supporting independent community-based schools as self-help resources for the educational needs of their children. These schools,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Community Involvement, Community Schools, Economic Factors
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